The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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Page 51
... artist , he has not as a rule the freedom of action which the most incompetent scribbler , the poorest dauber , possesses . The artist can within certain limits make what he likes of his life . In other callings , in medicine for ...
... artist , he has not as a rule the freedom of action which the most incompetent scribbler , the poorest dauber , possesses . The artist can within certain limits make what he likes of his life . In other callings , in medicine for ...
Page 189
... artist produces for the liberation of his soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of ...
... artist produces for the liberation of his soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of ...
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... artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the painter thinks ... artists have seldom attached great value to realism . On the whole they have used nature to make a formal decoration ...
... artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the painter thinks ... artists have seldom attached great value to realism . On the whole they have used nature to make a formal decoration ...
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